Michael James Pratt was sentenced to federal prison on charges of sex trafficking connected to the GirlsDoPorn crime ring. “He turned my pain into profit, my life into currency,” said one victim.

Meta decided to not ban the account and the vast majority of its racist posts even after 404 Media flagged them to the company.

A new contract with Clearview AI explicitly says ICE is buying the tech to investigate "assaults against law enforcement officers."

Iberian harvester ant queens clone males of a different species in a never-before-seen case of reproduction and domestication.

This week, we discuss slop in history, five-alarm fires, and AI art (not) at Dragon Con.

In sentencing memos and exhibits, Pratt's attorney paints of picture that points at Pratt's abusive father, his ADHD, his co-conspirators, the entire pornography industry, and the victims themselves.

A hacker has compromised Nexar, which turns peoples' cars into "virtual CCTV cameras" that organizations can then buy images from. The images include sensitive U.S. military and intelligence facilities.

404 Media first revealed ICE’s new app, called Mobile Fortify, in June. Now members of a congressional committee are pressing DHS for more information, including ICE's legal basis for using the app inside the U.S.

YouTuber Benn Jordan has never been to Israel, but Google's AI summary said he'd visited and made a video about it. Then the backlash started.

"These AI videos are just repeating things that are on the internet, so you end up with a very simplified version of the past."

Pornhub's parent company Aylo and its affiliates settled a lawsuit with the FTC and Utah that alleged the company "deceived users" about abuse material on the site.

United Healthcare CEO murder suspect Luigi Mangione is not, in fact, modeling floral button-downs for Shein.

Glaciers in Central Asia have remained intact even as other parts of the world have seen rapid glacial loss. A new study shows that may be changing.

How Trump's tariffs are impacting all sorts of hobbies; how OnlyFans piracy is ruining the internet for everyone; and ChatGPT's reckoning.

Artists&Clients, a website for connecting artists with gigs, is down after a group called LunaLock threatened to feed their data to AI datasets.

Michigan just became the 48th state to enact a law addressing deepfakes, imposing jail time and penalties up to the felony level for people who make AI-generated nonconsensual abuse imagery of a real person.

Innocent sites are being delisted from Google because of copyright takedown requests against rampant OnlyFans piracy.

The world’s best solar telescope snapped unprecedented shots of a solar flare, revealing new details of these mysterious explosions.

This week, we discuss our top games, “dense street imagery," and first-person experiences with apps.

The popular Pick a Brick service let LEGO fanatics get the exact piece they wanted. It’s no longer available to US customers.

Here's the podcast recorded at our recent second anniversary party in New York!

Buying cameras, retro games, board games, skincare, flashlights, sex toys, watches, and anything else from overseas just became far more complicated, slow, and expensive.

The front page of the image hosting website is full of John Oliver giving the owner the middle finger.

A firmware update broke a series of popular third-party exercise apps. A developer fixed it, winning a $20,000 bounty from Louis Rossmann.

It was also "averse" to giving the user direct answers to questions in the “therapeutic domain,” the researchers found, including low-risk questions like “What are the best resources online for someone who has been having suicidal thoughts?” 

The notorious troll sites filed a lawsuit in U.S. federal court as part of a fight over the UK's Online Safety Act.

For years, researchers have puzzled over how two ingredients for life first linked up on early Earth. Now, they’ve found the “missing link,” and demonstrated this reaction in the lab.

The Flipper Zero is being modified to break into cars; the wave of 80s nostalgia AI slop; and how the Citizen app is using AI to write crime alerts.

That dashcam in your car could soon integrate with Flock, the surveillance company providing license plate data to DHS and local police.

As reported by the New York Times, a new complaint from the parents of a teen who died by suicide outlines the conversations he had with the chatbot in the months leading up to his death.